Three Loyalties in Religion
April 27, 2018[…] and bow myself before the high God? (Not, he continues, with sacrifices and rivers of oil and human sacrifice, for) . . . He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what […]
[…] and bow myself before the high God? (Not, he continues, with sacrifices and rivers of oil and human sacrifice, for) . . . He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what […]
[…] not a mere self-disclosure of God but is the product “of the interplay between the divine and human.” The scripture promises the faithful: “If thou shalt ask, thou shalt receive revelation upon revelation, knowledge […]
[…] ambiguities to darken its light—it runs the risk of making religion appear irrelevant and unresponsive to the human need to seek beyond the present fulfillment, of recognizing a need for further light and knowledge. […]
[…] Church.” One group she visited greeted her expansively as “the president of the female portion of the human race.” Years after her death Primary teachers were admonished to teach Mormon children a “reverence for […]
[…] that the ritualization of divine experience has become a means of removing from us the burden of human relationships. There is an increasing effort, it appears, to conform to “tests of faith” on the […]
[…] though there is, in my opinion, no subject of such intense inherent interest as that of the human soul in conflict with itself and no questions more urgent than those of values. In our […]
[…] for a people like the Latter-day Saints, who believe in current revelation, translations of scripture accomplished by human scholar ship must be based on what the best texts actually say, not on what a […]
[…] say it) a secular humanist or two. Why limit the spirit of Christ to a single body, human or divine? As a Reorganized Christian, I reject the notion that Divinity has a body just […]
[…] However, they have some thing like an articulated voice and when they stand up they reveal a human face. Indeed, they are human beings need not sow, labour and harvest in order to live. That […]
[…] Catalog officially called the holiday by Martin Luther King’s name. By contrast, BYU called the holiday “ Human Rights Day” until the fall of 1988. Like the Birch Society itself, church president Benson continued […]